I need to cancel a print job - Office Equipment & Supplies

First You Need to Open the Print Queue, follow the below steps on how to open a Print queue

• Windows 98 - click Start, Settings, Printers
• Windows XP - click Start, Printers and Faxes
  or click Start, Control Panel, Printers and Faxes
• Windows Vista - Start, Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, Printers

Double click on the appropriate printer to open up the Print queue,Check whether you have any pending or the queued jobs, try to cancel the jobs by following the below steps.

To cancel one or more print jobs, follow these steps.
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type control printers, and then click OK.
3. Right-click the icon for your printer, and then click Open.
• To cancel individual print jobs, right-click the print job that you want to cancel, and then click Cancel.
• To cancel all print jobs, click Cancel All Documents on the Printer menu.

If you are using an HP printer and a windows vista operating system then you are lucky to automaticlly fix the issue with the HP Print Diagnostic UtilityClick Here For How to cancel printing or to delete a print job that is stuck in the print queue in Windows XP.

Alternatively You can check the below steps.

Delete Pending Jobs

How To Restart Spooler restart In Windows Vista

Click the Start button.
Click Control Panel.
Click System and Maintenance.

NOTE: This step is not required when using Classic view in Windows Vista.

Click Administrative Tools.
Double-click Services.
On the User Account Control window, click Continue.
Click Print Spooler.
Click Stop to stop the Print Spooler.
Click Start to restart the Print Spooler. Then click Restart
Click OK

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To cancel one or more print jobs, follow these steps.


1. Go to Control panel - Printers .
2. Right-click the icon for your printer, and then click

Open.
3. To cancel individual print jobs, right-click the print job

that you want to cancel, and then click Cancel.
4. To cancel all print jobs, click Cancel All Documents on

the Printer menu.

Alternatively if this doesnt work you have to restart the spooler service

1.Go to Control Panel - Click Administrative Tools.
2.Double-click Services.
3. Stop the service called Print Spooler.
4. Click Start to restart the Print Spooler. Then click OK.


Hope this helps.

Click Start
Click Control Panel
Click Classic View
Click Printers
Double-click the active printer to open the "job-queue" window
Select the file to be cancelled
Right-mouse click on the selected file, and choose cancel.

my printer did not take the printing job. I wnt to cancel the job but it is not cancell lsat one job is still pending. If acctionally take the print firt two line is printing the rest of the matter is pending and that job is not able to cancel . I have hp diagnostic utility but it is also not working to release the printing que. kindly do needful to solve this problem

Delete Queued Print Job If a print job is corruptand does not print clearly, does not print at all or is preventingother queued jobs from printing, delete the queued job.

1. On the Windows taskbar, double-click the printer icon located to the left of the time.
   
   
   
   
2. At the Printer window, select the print job, under 'Document Name' column, to highlight it.
   
   
3. From the 'Document' menu, select 'Cancel'.
   
   
4. Repeat steps two and three to cancel another print job.
   
   
5. Ifthe print job cannot be cancelled or will not stop printing, shut downthe compuer, disconnect the printer cable and then restart the computer.
   
1. Close the Printer window.
   
2. Shut down the computer.
   
3. Disconnect the printer cable (USB or parallel cable).
   
4. Restart the computer.
   
5. If a message window appears asking to cancel printing, select 'Yes'.
   
6. Verifythe printer icon no longer appears on the Windows taskbar. If the iconappears, double-click it and cancel the remaining print jobs asinstructed on steps two and three.
   
7. After all print jobs have been cancelled, reconnect the cable to the printer and then try to print again.
   
   
6. Ifthe print job does not complete, it may be necessary to disconnect theprinter cable, power off and on the printer and then reconnecting thecable.

As the previous expert has stated, with the printer paused, press the cancel key to cancel the job. One thing to note, is depending on how your software sends the print jobs, you may say print 1000 labels, but the software sends it one at a time, so basically you have 1000 print jobs in the printer. If you pause the printer, press and hold the cancel key. Hold it for about 2 mins. This should clear the buffer.

You can cancel a print job from within Windows by going to Control Panel -> Printers and double-clicking on the appropriate printer. Right-click the print job you want to cancel and select Cancel from the context menu. Anything already sent to the printer will continue to print.

You can also cancel a print job from the printer by pressing Cancel on the control panel. This applies to whatever is currently printing.
(You may want to remove any paper from the paper tray first.)

Clicking the cancel print icon stops the job from continuing to spool, but whatever is still in the printer's memory will continue to print until exhaused or the job is cancelled from the printer's control panel.

You can't. Just print it out.

Sounds like the printer spool is frozen.

Assuming you're using WinXP and logged in as an administrator (or with admin permissions)

START
Control Panel
Administrative Tools
Services

Locate the "Print Spooler"
Right click on this and choose "restart"

This will restart the print queue and will probably try to print the job again or delete it properly. If it tries to restart, just right click on the printer job and choose cancel again..

You may need to repeat but that should at least get you back up and running with other print jobs again.

To cancel a print job in Windows you can use one of the following two methods:

CANCELLING A PRINT JOB WITH THE PROGRESS METER:
When you send a print job to the printer, the Status Monitor will appear in the bottom right corner of your screen. Another printer icon for the PROGRESS METER will also appear in the taskbar while printing is taking place. This PROGRESS METER is there so you can manage print priorities or cancel print jobs.

1. Highlight the print job in the PROGRESS METER box.
2. Click on DOCUMENT and CANCEL, or, right click on the job name and left click CANCEL or DELETE.
3. Confirm cancelling the print job.

CANCELLING A PRINT JOB FROM THE PRINTERS WINDOW:
If no PROGRESS METER appears, you can access the document queue in this fashion:

1. Open START, SETTINGS, CONTROL PANEL, PRINTERS (START, CONTROL PANEL, PRINTERS and FAXES in Windows XP).
2. Right click on your Epson printer name, left click PURGE PRINT JOBS (98,ME), or CANCEL ALL DOCUMENTS (2000,XP). (Or, double-click on the printer name to see and modify the status of documents in queue.)
3. Confirm cancelling all documents.

Keep in mind that once information has been sent to the printer it resides in the spooling folders within Windows. It may a while for printing to stop as this data clears the system.

If the printer continues to print (ie multiple copies of a cancelled job, or garbled print) remove the rest of the paper from the printer and allow it to run out. Once an "out of paper" type error appears on your screen, cancel the documents. Once all print job information has deleted, reload the paper and press the paper feed button once to clear the red light and return the printer to a ready state.